I was glad to hear from you but there is a letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. lacking, dear one, that I fear you have not got. Mr. Frye dates all my letters in memorandum when he mails them. He has it on the record mailed March 17.th It was a long letter of several sheets giving you quite a history of things at this hour. Have you that letter?
One letter was mailed to you March 16th, the next one, and the one I refer to was mailed the next day on the 17.th That letter explained the one before it, and is a letter I am not willing to fall into any hands but your own. Please send me that letter It will bear postmark March 17.th
It is not so much funds that I need as help on my paper in publishing it. You remember I told you all about this when here, and you said you would take the place of publisher, that is to see it was circulated and more subscribers obtained. I was to have the refusal of the paper as both editor and publisher one year. The Association pays for its printing and I have given my services as editor so far, but know if I had any one hold of it that was interested and active it could be made very remunerative. At the end of one year I took the paper into my hands as both editor and publisher on the strength of what you had said. Now I have no aid to publish as I had before, but if I had not done that, I should have lost the chance, and so broken my promise to you and the arrangement entered into. That is what I never do, go back of my word. So you see the situation
Please send me, not the letter mailed the 16.th but the next one, mailed the 17th inst
As ever